FAQ & quunnamtii

Answers to common questions about ArtaQuest — how publishing, the reproducibility checklist, challenges, coins, sponsors, and donations work — and how to reach us.

ArtaQuest jechuun maali?

A social feed of citable, reproducible work. Every submission — survey, dataset, model, article, 2D or 3D illustration, 2D or 3D animation, 2D or 3D game, or music — is a public Kaggle notebook that has been run. The author pastes the URL of the notebook's output page, picks which of its output files to publish, and an exhaustive reproducibility checklist runs against Kaggle's public API before the author publishes the work from their own inbox. Published files land in the Library, where any member can attach them to their posts. Reading everything is free, no account needed.

How do I publish a work?

Paste a Kaggle notebook URL, pick the files to publish, read the checklist, request publication, then confirm from your inbox. That is the whole flow. The checklist's blocking checks all have to pass; then a single-use secret goes to your own registered email, and your click plus your device passkey signature is what publishes the work and mints its permanent DOI short link. Every step is free.

How is a work checked?

It is checked, not judged — nothing here is scored, ranked or graded. A reproducibility checklist runs about twenty deterministic checks in four groups: can anyone open it, can anyone re-run it, did that run produce these files, how repeatable is the result. Every check names the exact evidence it read from Kaggle's public API. Blocking checks must all pass; warnings are shown loudly and never block. Because the Kaggle pages the checklist reads answer without a login, the whole checklist is a public assertion anyone can re-run and contradict.

Why must every work be a public Kaggle notebook?

Because that is what makes it checkable by a stranger. Reproducible here means anyone can hit Copy & Edit then Run All on Kaggle, from public inputs, and get this — weaker than a byte-for-byte guarantee, stronger than taking our word for a run on our own machine. Kaggle runs the notebook and enforces the internet switch; we read and report what its record says. The Kaggle kernel is the provenance, and the DOI short link (artaquest.com/d/n<id>) is the citation of record, because a kernel is owner-editable and deletable and a DOI is not.

Akkaawuntii na barbaachisa?

You can read, play and listen to everything without one — and re-run any work yourself on Kaggle. A free account is needed to post, heart, publish and enter challenges. Signing up takes under a minute and needs only an email address; there are no passwords, ever.

Yoon umuriin koo waggaa 18 gadi ta'e itti makamuu nan danda'aa?

Miseensonni umuriin isaanii waggaa 13 fi isaa ol ta’e hayyama warraa ykn guddiftuutiin galmaa’uu ni danda’u. Arta Coins, ykn kaffaltii biroo kamiyyuu bitachuun, abbaan herregaa waggaa 18 fi isaa ol ta’uu qaba, ykn warra ykn guddiftuu ta’uu qaba, daldala sana xumuruuf.

Qormaatni akkamitti hojjeta?

A challenge is founded by a member: pick a kind, a sitewide topic and a full-moon deadline, set the entry fee, and open it with your own notebook — the founder pays in like everyone else. Every entrant's fee goes straight into the pool, and at the full moon the most-hearted entry takes the whole pool; an exact tie splits it evenly. The Foundation never takes a cut.

Akkamittan qormaata keessa seena?

With your own work of the challenge's kind — a public Kaggle notebook that has cleared the checklist and that you have published from your own inbox. Pay the entry fee — all of it goes into the pool — one entry per member per challenge. At the deadline only the hearts decide.

Sagalee oliif gadi dhiisee onnee maaliif?

Sababni isaas mi'aan negaatiivii hin barbaadu. Waan jaallattu onnee ati — deebii ykn hojii tokkoof miseensa tokkoof onnee tokko malee kan kee gonkumaa — lakkoofsi immoo boordii sadarkaa kaa’a. Wanti downvote godhamu hin jiru: qabiyyeen jibba ykn sodaan daldalamu kan qabamu ArtaMod malee pile-ons miti, wanti biraa hundi jaalala inni argatu irratti dhaabbachuu qaba. Onneen hundi Data explorer keessatti ummataaf ifa ta'a.

Garaagarummaan saantimaa fi qabxii gidduu jiru maali?

Wantoota adda addaa lama. Arta Coins maallaqadha — warqeen kan deeggaramee, kan ba’u, kan maallaqaan kan jijjiiramu; qormaata poolii fudhachuudhaan isaan injifatta. Qabxiin dhaabbataadha — lakkoofsa umurii guutuu waan ati gumaachite kan sadarkaa kee kaa'u (Quester to Legend). Qabxii kan argattu uumuudhaan (hojii maxxansuu), bobba’uudhaan (deebii tokkoon tokkoon maxxansiteef qabxii), arjoomuudhaan (qabxii saantima tokkoof kenname), fi tola ooltummaadhaan (gumaacha furmaata argate, qooda, rifaralaa). Saantima baasuun qabxii kee gonkumaa hin gadi buusu.

Akkamittan arjooma?

Gara fuula Arjoomaatti deemi, hanga tokko fudhadhu ykn galchi, kaffaltii itti fufi. Interac e-Transfer ykn kaardiitiin kaffalu; qajeelfama kaffaltii battalumatti ni argita. Guyyoota hojii 1–2 keessatti nagahee keenya ni mirkaneessina.

Saantima Arta (₳) jechuun maali?

Arta Coin (₳) maallaqa ArtaQuest ti. Tokkoon tokkoon saantimaa warqee dhugaa miligiraama tokko irratti himannaa kan ta’u yoo ta’u, fuul-barruun Reserve reeshiyoo kallattiin warqee qabamee fi saantima ba’e maxxansa — kanaaf jecha keenya fudhachuu mannaa ofuma keessanii duubatti deebi’uu ilaaluu dandeessu. Qarshiin tokko biyya hunda keessatti gatii wal fakkaata. Saantima qormaata poolii fudhachuudhaan mo'atta, akkasumas Wallet kee irraa gatii warqee jiraataa ta'een bitachuu ykn maallaqaan baasuu dandeessa.

Buusiin kun maaliif CAD keessatti argama?

Faawundeeshiniin kun baankota Kanaadaa keessa jira, kanaaf kaffaltiin doolaara Kanaadaatiin kan mallatteeffamudha. Kaffaltiin kaardii maallaqa naannoo keessanii ofumaan jijjiira; Interac herrega baankii Kanaadaati.

Arta Coins maal gochuu danda'a?

Qormaata argatte ykn galchi, fandii miseensotaaf arjooma (innis qabxii arjoomtootaa siif argamsiisa), ykn maallaqa idileetiin safartuu warqee lubbuu qabuun Wallet kee irraa maallaqaan baasi. Saantima hunduu warqee miligiraama tokko irratti himannaa dha; reeshiyoon deeggarsa kallattiin fuula Reserve irratti argama.

Nagahee gibiraa argachuu nan danda'aa?

Not an official one, and we would rather say so plainly than leave you to find out at tax time. ArtaQuest Foundation is a Canadian non-profit corporation, not a registered charity, and CRA does not permit a non-profit to issue official donation receipts — so a gift to us is not tax-deductible. Every donation does trigger an email confirmation you can keep as a record, and every cent of it appears in the Foundation’s published books, on the Finances page.

Buusiin koo deebisee argachuu nan dandaʼaa?

Buusiin akka waliigalaatti hin deebi’u (Imaammata Deebi’uu ilaali), kaffaltii dachaa ykn hayyama hin qabne irraa kan hafe. Saantima arjooma deebi’eef qophaa’e duubatti deebi’a.

Barsiin maaliifi?

Kanaafuu baasii sun eenyu akka hirmaatu gonkumaa hin murteessu. Karaa sagantaa Ispoonsarootaatiin, arjoomtonni Arta Coins hawaasa tokkoof kan ramadu yoo ta’u, bursaries fandii sana irraa fudhata. Bakka har’a dhaabbate: unkaan barsarii ammallee kaffaltii koorsii soorama ba’e kan haguugu malee galmee qormaataa miti, kanaaf ammallee kaffaltii qormaataa kaffaluu hin danda’u — unka gargaaruu hin dandeenyetti si erguurra akkas jechuu filanna. Saantima fandicha keessa jiru hundi yeroo kana ledgers keessatti ummataaf ifa ta'a.

Barsiisaaf ragaa galii akkamii na barbaachisa?

Sanadni tokko gahaadha: Beeksisa Madaallii CRA, xalayaa faayidaa mootummaa (AISH, Alberta Works, Deeggarsa Galii, ykn kan kanaan wal gitu), gabaasa sadarkaa liqii galii kee akka Gadi aanaatti ramadu, ykn sanada dandeettii qoratame kan biraa.

ArtaQuest dhaabbata galmaa'eedhaa?

Eeyyee. ArtaQuest Foundation dhaabbata bu'aa malee hojjetu Kanaadaa keessatti galmaa'eedha. Barnootaaf qofa kan hojjetu yoo ta’u, bu’aa tokkollee miseensotaaf hin raabsu. Caasaan bu’aa hin arganne kun itti yaadanii kan hojjetamedha — walabummaa waltajjii kanaa akka hin arganne, maallaqaan akka hin argamne ykn callisee ergama isaa irraa akka hin qajeelfamne eega.

Ejjennoo ArtaQuest AI irratti maali?

AI tokko deebii isaa tokkicha isa baay’ee ta’uu danda’u siif kennuuf leenji’eera — addunyaa carraawwan jiran tokko tokkotti kuffisuuf. Akka meeshaatti, sun humna guddaa qaba. Akka bakka bu’aa yaaduutti, waan namoonni ni danda’ama jedhanii amanan callisee dhiphisa, deebii giddu galeessaa fudhachuus tokko hojjechuu caalaa badhaasa. Humna guddaas ni guba. ArtaQuest deebii kennuudhaan ijaarame — faallaa teeknooloojii osoo hin taane, garuu dandeettii namaa bakka bu'uu hin dandeenyeef: dandeettii ofii keetiif yaaduu, fi gaaffii maashinichi dhiphate bal'isuuf.

ArtaQuest ilaalcha ykn ilaalcha addunyaa addaa ni jajjabeessaa?

Lakki Duudhaa, waldaa amantii ykn ejjennoo siyaasaa kamiyyuu hin leellifnu, maallaqa gara tokkotti nu harkisus hin fudhannu. Beekumsa bilisaa isa gaarii argachuu dandeenyu isiniif fidna, ejjennoowwan dorgomaniif dhimma amanamaa cimaa ta’e isiniif dhiheessina, tokko isiniif kennuu caalaa xumura mataa keessanii akka geessan isin goona. Sodaachisaa, haasaan jibbiinsaa, olola hin jiru.

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ArtaQuest nagahee gibiraa irratti sadarkaa tola ooltummaa qabaa?

Lakkii akka dhaabbata bu’aa hin arganne Kanaadaatti kan hundeeffamne yoo ta’u, keewwata 149(1)(l) gibira galii irraa bilisa ta’uu irratti hirkatna; galmee tola ooltummaa Ejensii Galii Kanaadaa irraa hin arganne, hanga argannutti nagahee arjooma ofiisaa kennuu hin dandeenyu. Yoom iyyuu yoo sun jijjiirame fuul-barruun kun dursee akkas jedha.